Stock-car



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I. DAVISSON.

STOCK CAR.

No. 595,151. Patented De0.7,189'7.

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I. DAVISSON.

STOCK GAR.

No. 595,151 Patented Dec. 7,1897.

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(No Model.)

I. DAVISSON.

STOCK CAR.

N0.595,151 Patented De0.7, 1897.

v g 1 M i'rn Sra'rns ITIIAMAR DAVISSON, OF LO ST CREEK, VEST VIRGINIA.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,151, dated December '7, 1897.

Application filed March 16, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ITHAMAR DAVISSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lost Creek, in the county of Harrison and State of Vest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in stock-cars, and the object is to provide a car for transporting horses and cattle and which may also be converted into two vertical compartments for sheep, swine, and the like, and to these ends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference-characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved stock-car as it appears when used for transporting cattle. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the removable transverse bars 28. Fig. 3 is a transverse section near one end of the car. Fig. at is a similar view on the same line, showing the car ready for the large stock. Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the car ready for the small stock. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the car.

1 represents an ordinary stock-car.

2 is an auxiliary bottom resting firmly on the usual bottom and of a suitable size to travel freely up and down in the car.

3, 4:, 5, and 6 represent a series of converging chains, their lower ends being secured to eyebolts 7 7 extending through the bottom of the car and fixed in the longitudinal bars 8 8, fixed to the bottom 2, and their upper ends terminate in a ring connected to a chain 8, the upper end of which is detachably secured to the radial projecting hook 10 on a longitudinal shaft 11, j ournaled in bearings 13 13, fixed in the ends of the car, and its outer ends project through the ends of the car and through brackets ll lat, terminating in square shanks 15 15, which receive a detachable crank-handle 16, by means of which said shaft Serial No. 627,796. (N0 ode -l may be rotated to raise and lower the auxiliary bottom 2.

17 represents a pinion fixed on each outer end of the shaft 11, and it meshes with and has a bearing on a similar pinion 18, journaled in the bracket 14C and the contiguous face of the end of the car.

19 represents a pawl pivoted on the outside face of the end of the car, its free end arranged to engage the teeth on the pinion 17 to retain the shaft while being raised, and a second pawl 20 is pivoted on the inner face of the end of the car and also engages a ratchet-wheel 21, fixed on the shaft 11, to assist in holding the shaft while being rotated to raise the bottom 2. This second pawl 20 is provided with a lateral arm 22, which extends through a slot in the end of the car, so that it can be conveniently manipulated by the operator located outside of the car.

The longitudinal shaft 11 is supported within the car by a series of hangers 23, suspended from the carlines 24:, and it is centrally divided, its contiguous threaded ends 25 25 engaging the internally threaded couplingsocket 26 and the lock or jam nuts 27 27, which serve to rigidly secure the ends of said shaft in the coupling.

34 34 represent auxiliary chains, their lower ends connected to eyebolts a on the bottom 2, and they extend upwardly inside of the car, terminating in a ring 34, connected to a single chain which extends over a grooved pulley 35 and thence along the top of the car, where its inner end is connected to a hook 236 on the longitudinal shaft 11 to support the center of the bottom 2 while it is being raised with the animals.

28 represents one of a series of removable transverse bars provided on their upper-faces with rectangular transverse notches 29 29, which receive the longitudinal bars 8 8, and on their opposite sides with similar recesses 30 30, which engage the upper notched edges of the belt-rail 31, so that when in place and the bottom 2 resting upon them the said bars 28 not only support the bottom 2 and the weight on top of it, but by reason of the interlocking recesses just mentioned are as rigidly fixed in place as if they were permanent fixtures.

32 represents a flaring guard-rail which eX- tends entirely around the inside of the car to form a protection for the space between the outer edge of the bottom 2 and the sides and ends of the car.

33 33 represent a series of guard-brackets which secure the chain in place after it has been detached from the hooks on the shaft, so as not to be in the way of or in any manner interfere with the animals.

An important feature of my construction is in the fact that swine, sheep, and the like can be loaded on the bottom 2 while it is resting on the bottom of the car and in the same horizontal plane with the usual stationary freight-platform at the station. animals areloaded in the car the said bottom 2 may be elevated and secured in place and After the tions will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art Without-departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States,

A stock-car comprising the vertically-adjustable bottom 2, in combination with the longitudinal shaft 11, provided with the radial hooks 10, the pinions 17 17 fixed thereon, :the converging chains 3', 4,. 5 and 6,v having their lower ends fixed in said bottom 2 and their upper ends secured in a ring 9, a chain 8 having its upper end detachably secured to said radial hook, the pawls 19 and 20, the latter provided with a-lateral arm 22, projecting through a slot in the end of the" car, and pinions 1818-fixed on the outer ends of said longitudinal shaft,su-bstantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affi-x my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ITHAMAR D'AVISS ON.

Witnesses:

O. T. Bonn, S. G. MoNRoE. 

